Jill E. Twark

Jill E. Twark is an Associate Professor of German at East
Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. She has
published widely in the field of post-unification German
literature, with a focus on humorous and satirical Eastern German
novels. Her publications include the articles "Landscape, Seascape,
Cyberscape: Narrative Strategies to Dredge up the Past in Günter
Grass's Novella Im Krebsgang," "New Eastern German Satire:
Ingo Schulze’s Neue Leben as 'Novel of Complexity,'" and
the 2007 monograph Humor, Satire, and Identity: Eastern German
Literature in the 1990s. Her edited volume Strategies of
Humor in Post-Unification German Literature, Film, and Other
Media appeared in 2011 and her co-edited volume
Envisioning Social Justice in Contemporary German Culture
was published in 2015. Her homepage is: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cas/foreign/faculty/Twark.cfm.